{"id":206210,"date":"2026-05-30T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:59:09","slug":"ot-bounce-goes-marlies-way-for-2-0-series-lead-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206210\/","title":{"rendered":"OT bounce goes Marlies\u2019 way for 2-0 series lead | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pezzetta<\/a> scored 14:53 into overtime to give the Toronto Marlies a 2-1 victory over Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday night.<\/p>\n

With the Marlies ahead two games to none, the teams head up to Toronto for the middle three games of the best-of-seven series, with Game 3 set for Monday (7 ET, \"\"<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On the winning goal, Pezzetta floated a high wrister towards the net from the left point. Penguins goaltender Sergei Murashov<\/a> and Marlies forward Marc Johnstone<\/a> both reached up to try to play the puck, but it hit off Murashov\u2019s blocker and dropped into the net behind him.<\/p>\n

For Pezzetta, who also scored the decisive goal late in Game 1, all three of his postseason tallies have been game-winners.<\/p>\n

Former Penguin Alex Nylander<\/a> scored a power-play goal in the first period for the Marlies, and Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> (9-4) finished with 33 saves in recording his fourth straight win.<\/p>\n

Tanner Howe<\/a> had the lone goal for the Penguins, tying the game with 11:59 left in regulation.<\/p>\n

Murashov (6-5) stopped 37 of 39 shots on the night.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(Toronto leads series, 2-0)
Game 1 \u2013 Wed., May 27 \u2013 Toronto 4, W-B\/SCRANTON 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Fri., May 29 \u2013 Toronto 2, W-B\/SCRANTON 1 (OT)<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Mon., June 1 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
Game 4 \u2013 Wed., June 3 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 5 \u2013 Fri., June 5 \u2013 W-B\/Scranton at Toronto, 7:00
*Game 6 \u2013 Sun., June 7 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 6:05
*Game 7 \u2013 Tue., June 9 \u2013 Toronto at W-B\/Scranton, 7:05
*if necessary\u2026 All times Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Pezzetta scored 14:53 into overtime to give the Toronto Marlies a 2-1 victory over Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-206210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}